Abbas El Daly

Abbas El Daly

Acting

March 6, 1911 — March 10, 1980
Tanta, Egypt
74 movies

Biography

An Egyptian actor, who was born in the city of Tanta in 1911. He memorized the Holy Qur’an and entered the primary and preparatory school. Then he moved to Cairo and lived in Shubra neighborhood. He obtained his secondary certificate in 1928. He worked on the theater, before he had the opportunity to work in cinema in 1939 by participating in the movie Lend Me 3 Pounds. He is best known for acting in: Bitter Grapes, Thief and Dogs, and Women Don't Know How To Lie. He passed away in 1980.

🎬 Abbas El Daly's Filmography

74 movies sorted by popularity

El Maganeen Fi Naeem
8.3

A madman exposes humanity’s insanity. Andeel leaves a mental hospital after 10 years of treatment are over to face the world again. Whenever he reveals that he used to be a mental patient, he is faced with aggressive suspicion, cruelty and rejection. When a shop owner refuses to hire him, he yells that he is the only one with an official certificate that proves he is actually sane. We follow his miserable search for a job and watch situations in which, over and over again, he gets very close to a decent life just before his unrestrained tongue reveals a side of his madness that freaks people out. Andeel is an honest, kind person who’s good at what he does, but people’s uncontrollable fear of madness makes them want to get rid of him and the uncomfortable state he puts them in, probably because of how normal he seems, just like them, yet how crazy he is, like they fear they might be.

El Maganeen Fi Naeem

1963
Jamila, the Algerian
7.2

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...

Jamila, the Algerian

1958
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